Featuring The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Amazing Royal Crowns, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Buck-O-Nine – plus many others yet to be announced, the 2019 Cranking and Skanking Fest is shaping up to be something special for ska punk fans. It will be held on August 10th at The Met Courtyard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The […]
Featuring The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Amazing Royal Crowns, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Buck-O-Nine – plus many others yet to be announced, the 2019 Cranking and Skanking Fest is shaping up to be something special for ska punk fans. It will be held on August 10th at The Met Courtyard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
The festival will also feature food vendors and free craft beer tasting. To purchase tickets, .
Bad Buzz, a group of punk rockers from Toronto, Canada are streaming their new EP, Try Harder, which is out today with a bonus fifth single that is only available on the EP. The fun and energetic band have made the EP available on all the streaming services and for purchase – click here to […]
Bad Buzz, a group of punk rockers from Toronto, Canada are streaming their new EP, Try Harder, which is out today with a bonus fifth single that is only available on the EP.
The fun and energetic band have made the EP available on all the streaming services and for purchase – click here to buy it – or listen to the whole of Try Harder below.
Dutch skate punk band Ink Bomb released their new single “Griefwalker”. The song is the opener of their upcoming debut album Fiction, which will be released August 23. The single is streaming in all the usual places. Bass player Arina Banga explains, “‘Griefwalker’ is a perfect sneak preview of Fiction. It has that typical skate […]
Dutch skate punk band Ink Bomb released their new single “Griefwalker”. The song is the opener of their upcoming debut album Fiction, which will be released August 23. The single is streaming in all the usual places.
Bass player Arina Banga explains, “‘Griefwalker’ is a perfect sneak preview of Fiction. It has that typical skate punk sound we are known for but also features a weird song structure and some complex drum rhythms you wouldn’t normally find in a punk rock song clocking in under two minutes.”
You can check out a lyric video of “Griefwalker” below. [Read more…]
Straight from the Netherlands, March are currently streaming “Nothing Ever Really Dies” off their upcoming and much-anticipated second album to be released on White Russian Records. The band says of the single, “‘Nothing Ever Really Dies’ is another taste of what is yet to come from March”s second full length album. The new song maintains […]
Straight from the Netherlands, March are currently streaming “Nothing Ever Really Dies” off their upcoming and much-anticipated second album to be released on White Russian Records.
The band says of the single, “‘Nothing Ever Really Dies’ is another taste of what is yet to come from March”s second full length album. The new song maintains bands trademark punk ‘n roll sound and is packed with gut punching drums, guitars and vocals, combined with nihilist lyrics about ghosts of the past, present and future. A rock and roll lullaby that might haunt or comfort you in a world where everything ends but everything lingers.”
Check out the single and their tour dates, including festivals, below. [Read more…]
Ever since the end of My Chemical Romance, Frank Iero has not allowed himself, or his music, to be pigeonholed. This is evident with his latest project, Frank Iero and the Future Violents, which sounds nothing like previous offerings from the guitarist/singer, yet is equally good as the others have been. Barriers opens with a […]
Ever since the end of My Chemical Romance, Frank Iero has not allowed himself, or his music, to be pigeonholed. This is evident with his latest project, Frank Iero and the Future Violents, which sounds nothing like previous offerings from the guitarist/singer, yet is equally good as the others have been. Barriers opens with a slower song, reminiscent of a 1950s ballad, which makes the punk that follows all the more interesting. (Not to say that opening track “A New Day’s Coming” isn’t good – it is.)
The Future Violents lineup is Iero, Evan Nestor (an alumni of all the Frank Iero solo projects), former Murder By Death bassist Matt Armstrong, multi-instrumentalist Kayleigh Goldsworthy from Dave Hause And The Mermaid and Thursday’s Tucker Rule on drums.
“Young and Doomed” feels like a slightly experimental punk anthem for anyone feeling the frustrations of life in the current times. The song crashes into “Fever Dream,” which almost has a Nirvana feel to it – something totally unexpected that works really well in the context of the album. I think these two songs are my favorites on an album that I really like for its subdued charms and bursts of energy that keep the listener on their toes. “Moto-Pop” also stands out, as it is a song that would be equally at home on a late 70s punk album. The verses of “No Love” even sounds vaguely like The Cure – which is a surprising twist.
Barriers is, if nothing else, a diverse pastiche of different sounds and styles. It is a roller coaster of an album that takes listeners on an adventure through Frank’s brain and different aspects of music he appreciates and has been influenced by.
Frank Iero’s vocals are at times, like butter – this is especially apparent on “The Unfortunate,” and “Medicine Square Garden” – both at home in the middle of the album. But he hasn’t forgotten his roots from earlier bands and his ability to scream in the best possible ways.
The melodic and catchy chorus of “Police Police”, with almost spoken-word lyrics is another favorite and a song that is hard to characterize. “Hard to characterize” is probably the best way to describe this album, although there’s nothing wrong with that. It makes it more of an adventure, and is a great album when taken as individual songs as well as for listening to straight through.
The album closes with a jazzy ballad, almost a sexy siren song “Six Feet Under” and the sweeping and swooping “24k Lush”. Taken separately, the two songs couldn’t be less alike, but they work. That’s kind of the theme of the whole album – it just works, even if there is no real reason for it to do so. We’re dealing with ambitious professionals here. They knew exactly what they were doing when they put this album together.
Barriers is overall more tame than previous offerings from Frank Iero, especially when compared to his garage rock turn with Frank Iero and the Patience and the rawness of frnkiero and the cellabration. It doesn’t make this less of an album, not by any means, and it sounds nothing like what he did when he was in My Chemical Romance. At the same time, it is probably his solo album that will appeal most to fans of MCR.
4/4 stars
Riot Fest, now in its fifteenth year of the festival, have announced an impressive line up. Blink-182, who cancelled their 2018 set due to health issues, return to headline this year. Also gracing the stage will be the likes of Glassjaw, Dashboard Confessional, Descendents, Avail, The Get Up Kids and Against Me! Riot Fest happens […]
Riot Fest, now in its fifteenth year of the festival, have announced an impressive line up. Blink-182, who cancelled their 2018 set due to health issues, return to headline this year. Also gracing the stage will be the likes of Glassjaw, Dashboard Confessional, Descendents, Avail, The Get Up Kids and Against Me!
Riot Fest happens at Chicago, IL’s Douglas Park on September 13-15 tickets are on sale. To see the full line up click below.
Ahead of his new album ‘Where The Valley Kissed The Sky’, Virginia-based songwriter Mike Frazier has shared another single ‘Save Me’. The new release will be out May 31st via Geneva Records. This single showcases influences like Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, and makes for a good listen. This new record was also engineered by […]
Ahead of his new album ‘Where The Valley Kissed The Sky’, Virginia-based songwriter Mike Frazier has shared another single ‘Save Me’. The new release will be out May 31st via Geneva Records.
This single showcases influences like Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, and makes for a good listen. This new record was also engineered by Erik Romero (The Gaslight Anthem, The Front Bottoms, Beach Slang)
Mike Frazier last released the EP Elegy in 2017 via A-F Records. You can listen to ‘Save Me’ over at The Bluegrass Situation.
Providence, RI’s Stubborn Hearts are streaming their new 5 song album TRIXIE. Its equal parts punk and emo and rounds out with a heartfelt acoustic number. Check out the stream below.
Providence, RI’s Stubborn Hearts are streaming their new 5 song album TRIXIE. Its equal parts punk and emo and rounds out with a heartfelt acoustic number.
Check out the stream below.
Connecticut’s own hardcore punk icons, Cry Havoc! have just released their new album, No Good Deed Left Unpunished on Die Hipster! Records. This is the band’s first release on the mostly garage-punk label, and picks up where their last album, And Let Slip The Dogs Of War left off when it was released in 2014. […]
Connecticut’s own hardcore punk icons, Cry Havoc! have just released their new album, No Good Deed Left Unpunished on Die Hipster! Records. This is the band’s first release on the mostly garage-punk label, and picks up where their last album, And Let Slip The Dogs Of War left off when it was released in 2014.
Stream the whole album below.
I sense a theme here. California punks Dad Brains are releasing a new EP, “Dadditude” June 7th on Pirate’s Press Records and have released a video for the first single, “Father’s Day.” Frontman Pat Pedraza says, “I’ve never heard of a Fathers Day song in my life, so I was like, hey, we might actually […]
I sense a theme here. California punks Dad Brains are releasing a new EP, “Dadditude” June 7th on Pirate’s Press Records and have released a video for the first single, “Father’s Day.”
Frontman Pat Pedraza says, “I’ve never heard of a Fathers Day song in my life, so I was like, hey, we might actually do something original? As most of us know, it’s kinda challenging to be original nowadays. I couldn’t ask for anything more with this video and the fun we had shooting it. Families, friends, and kids getting together, kids playing instruments, getting food and water balloons launched at us, and a 20-year-old with a camera filming it… This was the highlight of my musical career so far!”
The band is made up of members from No Motiv, The Missing 23rd, Creep Division, and The F-ing Wrath. They write songs about fatherhood and being musicians who are also parents.
Check out the video for “Father’s Day” below.